archness

Example Sentences

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On opening night, Jessica Lefkow, portraying the boozing freeloader Lady Toby Belch — one of several performances that play with gender — paused scenes with amusing archness as emergency vehicles whizzed by.

From Washington Post

His adoption of Instagram may just be very weird, but there has been just enough of a twinkle to suggest a deadpan archness to what would otherwise be curiously well-constructed shots of overwhelming banality.

From The Guardian

Naturally, I also became familiar with Kenny’s cinematic pet peeves and inevitably adopted a few of them myself: phoniness, archness, empty formalism, nihilistic violence, willfully irritating characters.

From Los Angeles Times

This approach takes getting used to and your mileage may vary; much depends on your tolerance for archness, twee and lightly deployed Anderson-ish tics.

From New York Times

But the satisfactions of archness are short-lived, and I left the movie feeling like Marmee got short shrift once again.

From The New Yorker